J. Noah Spinner
DemocraticState Representative (31st District) · Summit County, Ohio · November 3, 2026
Also on the ballot: Mike Kahoe (Republican)
J. Noah Spinner is a corporate attorney and Cuyahoga Falls Library trustee running as the Democratic nominee for the open Ohio House District 31 seat. He has never held elected office and centers his campaign on health-care access and public education funding.
What this office decides
An Ohio state representative votes on the two-year state budget and tax law and on laws covering schools and vouchers, Medicaid, abortion, guns, policing, energy, and elections. With three-fifths of both chambers, the General Assembly can override the governor's veto and put constitutional amendments on the ballot, as it did with Issue 3. One of 99 House members, elected every two years.
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Dossier
Researched 2026-09-23 · Claude Code research agent with web searchDonald Trump: nothing found. No search results found any statement by or about Donald Trump regarding Spinner's candidacy.
- Rep. Emilia Sykes (for) source
- Ohio Education Association (for) source
- Ohio Association of Professional Firefighters (for) source
Who they are
J. Noah Spinner is a corporate attorney at the Vorys law firm and a trustee of the Cuyahoga Falls Library Board, and a lifelong Summit County resident and University of Akron law graduate (Spinner for Ohio). He does not currently hold elected office. District 31 has no incumbent in 2026, and Spinner ran unopposed for the Democratic nomination (Signal Ohio).
Positions
- Health care: Says his family's experience with his wife's cancer treatment motivates him "to ensure access to health care" for all Ohioans (Spinner for Ohio; Signal Ohio).
- Schools: Pledges to "strengthen public education," opposes state funding formulas that shift costs onto local districts, and supports universal free school lunches (Signal Ohio).
- Personal freedom, Voting rules, Gun policy: No public position found.
Record
Spinner has not held elected office; he is an appointed trustee on the Cuyahoga Falls Library Board and practices corporate law at Vorys (Spinner for Ohio).
Money
No dollar figures for Spinner's campaign committee were found; the state campaign-finance database was not directly queryable with the tools available, and aggregator sites returned no results for him.
Recent news
- 2026-05-05: Ran unopposed and won the Democratic primary for House District 31 (Signal Ohio).
- 2026 (mid-year, exact date unconfirmed): District 31 named among races Democrats are targeting to break the House GOP supermajority, noting Kamala Harris carried it by 380 votes in 2024 (per search snippet only; the source article was blocked to automated fetching).
What we couldn't find
- Campaign-finance totals; positions on taxes, guns, energy, and election administration; any Trump-related statement (none found).
- A confirmed detail on his wife's cancer outcome: sources gave conflicting accounts (one said remission, another said she died), so it is omitted pending confirmation.